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Ages of Discovery Timeline

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Ages of Discovery Timeline

Timeline showing Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

📚 Part 1: Understanding Historical Ages

1. What is a historical 'age'?

A person's birthday

A way historians group years with similar ways of life

How old someone is

2. Which of these are the three main historical ages we studied? (Tick all that apply)

Stone Age

Paper Age

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Plastic Age

3. What does BCE stand for?

Before Common Era

British Common Era

Bronze Common Era

4. What does CE stand for?

Current Era

Common Era

Celtic Era

⏰ Part 2: Timeline Knowledge

5. Put these ages in the correct order from oldest to newest:

Write 1, 2, 3 in the boxes:

Iron Age _____     Bronze Age _____     Stone Age _____

6. Fill in the blanks with the correct dates:

Stone Age: about 3.4 million years ago – _______ BCE

Bronze Age: 2,300 BCE – _______ BCE

Iron Age: 700 BCE – _______ CE

7. Which age lasted the longest time?

🔍 Part 3: Historical Thinking

8. Explain why you think people moved from using stone tools to bronze tools:
9. Name one thing that would have been different about daily life in the Stone Age compared to today:
10. Circle whether each statement is TRUE or FALSE:

The Iron Age happened before the Bronze Age     TRUE / FALSE

BCE means the time before year 1     TRUE / FALSE

People in the Stone Age used mobile phones     TRUE / FALSE

The ages are named after the main materials used for tools     TRUE / FALSE

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